Meaning

(transitive) To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of.
2. (intransitive) To enhance one's own appearance.

Example Sentences

Delighted with each other......we rambled....arm in arm......about the citron groves;.......and, when a mossy bank invited our repose...my charmer would weave garlands of flowers to adonise her shepherd ; ..........recline upon my arm..... and to the gentle lullaby of a murmuring stream..... sink into forgetfulness

Formerly, if not exactly to the same extent at the present day, mineral substances were only made use of to adonise the complexion ; indeed, every composition is qualified with this name, whether it be white or red, which women, and even men (coxcombs), with a clear skin, subserve to embellish their faces, with a view to imitate the colours of youth, or artificially to repair the absence of them.

Of all the looming Negroes that Lincoln could have brought into the White House to adonise his cause, Johnson had been his choice, with the scuttling train of a monitor lizard.

Leaving a breath to swell his tradesmen's books, To adonise, to smile, and kill with looks;

Since I parted with Darnley, who went in to adonise, I believe, Cameron has been hindering me with acknowledgments and regrets.

Whenever I find myself growing vapourish, I rouse myself, wash, and put on a clean shirt, brush my hair and clothes, tie my shoestrings neatly, and in fact adonise as I were going out.

Word Forms

• adonises
• adonising
• adonised
• Adonise
• adonize
• Adonize

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When Should You Use Adonise?

Use adonise when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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